Congratulations to the following School doctoral candidates who successfully completed their doctoral degrees this year! We wish them all a welcome rest and a chance to celebrate before they hit the streets looking for work! Yoshimi Osawa: The perception and representation of umami: a study of the relationship between taste sensation, food types and cultural categories; Graciela Alcantara-Salinas: A comparative study of Cuicatec and Zapotec ornithology, with particular reference to contextual variation in a time of environmental and social change in Oaxaca, Mexico. Bernadette Montanari: A critical analysis of the introduction of essential oil distillation in the High Atlas of Morocco, with reference to the role of gendered traditional knowledge. Saskia Dijk: The cultural aspects of human-nonhuman primate relationships, in the Goalpara District in Assam, India. Gotzone Garay: Come rain, water us this year: Kenyah Badeng forecasting knowledge, perceptions and responses to climatic variability in the interior of Sarawak, East Malaysia.
Anthropology and Conservation